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Is critical a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word critical is a Scrabble US word. The word critical is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

C3R1I1T1I1C3A1L1

Is critical a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word critical is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

C3R1I1T1I1C3A1L1

Is critical a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word critical is a Words With Friends word. The word critical is worth 15 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

C4R1I1T1I1C4A1L2

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8-letter words (1 found)

CRITICAL,

6-letter words (9 found)

ARCTIC,CITRAL,CITRIC,CLITIC,CRITIC,IATRIC,ITALIC,LACTIC,RICTAL,

5-letter words (18 found)

ARTIC,CACTI,CILIA,CIRCA,CITAL,CLART,CRAIC,ICTAL,ICTIC,ILIAC,LIART,LICIT,LITAI,TICAL,TICCA,TRAIL,TRIAC,TRIAL,

4-letter words (27 found)

AIRT,ALIT,ARIL,ARTI,CARL,CART,CIRL,CLAT,CLIT,CRIA,CRIT,ILIA,LAIC,LAIR,LARI,LATI,LIAR,LIRA,LIRI,RAIL,RAIT,RIAL,TAIL,TALC,TALI,TIAR,TIRL,

3-letter words (24 found)

ACT,AIL,AIR,AIT,ALT,ARC,ART,CAL,CAR,CAT,CIT,ITA,LAC,LAR,LAT,LIT,RAI,RAT,RIA,RIT,TAI,TAR,TIC,TIL,

2-letter words (9 found)

AI,AL,AR,AT,IT,LA,LI,TA,TI,

You can make 88 words from critical according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of critical

critical

Etymology

From Latin criticus +‎ -al, from Ancient Greek κριτικός (kritikós, “of or for judging, able to discern”), from κρίνω (krínō, “I separate, judge”); also the root of crisis.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɹɪt.ɪ.kəl/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɹɪt.ɪ.kəl/, [ˈkɹɪɾ.ɪ.kəl]

Adjective

critical (comparative more critical, superlative most critical)

  1. Inclined to find fault or criticize.
    Synonyms: fastidious, captious, censorious, exacting
  2. Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
  3. Extremely important.
    Synonyms: crucial, imperative
  4. Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
  5. (medicine) Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition could worsen; or, a patient condition that requires urgent treatment in an intensive care or critical care medical facility.
    Coordinate terms: fair, serious, stable
  6. (medicine, by extension) In such a condition.
  7. Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
  8. (physics) Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
  9. (physics) Of a temperature that is equal to the temperature of the critical point of a substance, i.e. the temperature above which the substance cannot be liquefied.

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Noun

critical (plural criticals)

  1. A critical value, factor, etc.
  2. In breakdancing, a kind of airflare move in which the dancer hops from one hand to the other.

Further reading

  • critical on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Medical state on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “critical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “critical”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “critical”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Source: wiktionary.org